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SPENCER, Baldwin & GILLEN, F.J. - Lot 151
SPENCER, Baldwin & GILLEN, F.J. The Native Tribes of Central Australia. London, Macmillan & Co. 1938. In-8 (217 x 144 mm) of XXIV, 671 pp. 6 plates and 2 maps, errata spine mounted on verso of title. Red percale, smooth spine (publisher's binding). Second edition, with an introduction by James George Frazer. Sir Baldwin Spencer (1860-1929) was a British and Australian biologist and anthropologist. First published in 1899 after Spencer and Gillen's fieldwork in Central Australia in 1896, this pioneering volume describes in detail previously unknown tribal customs, kinship structures, marriage and burial customs, and religious beliefs. Spine unstained, otherwise a good copy.
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